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In Hollywood history, no Oscar-winning couple has earned greater admiration than Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The actors who were married for 50 years before Newman's death in 2008 are the subject of the six-part CNN Films/HBO Max documentary series The Last Movie Stars, directed by Ethan Hawke…

UPDATED with statement from CNN Films from original 6:31 p.m. story: Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny got a loving message from his wife from the Oscar stage after the film about him won Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. "Thank you to everybody here," Yulia Navalnaya said when…

The Sacklers of OxyContin infamy have become indelibly tied to the opioid crisis in America. But the truth is they were far from the only contributors to a drug epidemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in recent years.  Take Chris and Jeff George, for instance. The steroid-jacked twin…

EXCLUSIVE: It was the live trivia game everyone wanted to play. If they could get the app to work. HQ Trivia became a sensation not long after it was released for mobile platforms in 2017, promising cash prizes to users who could correctly answers a series of timed questions in rapid fire succession…

The Deadline Studio at Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-23 at Hotel Park City, where the cast and creatives behind the best and buzziest titles in this year's lineup sit down with Deadline's festival team to discuss their movies and the paths they took to get to Park City. Little Richard: I Am E…

Little Richard left this mortal coil in 2020, but tonight the architect of rock’n’roll is coming to shake up the Sundance Film Festival. RELATED: Sundance Documentary 'Little Richard: I Am Everything' Goes To Magnolia Directed by Park City vet Lisa Cortés, Little Richard: I Am Everything…

The award-winning documentary Navalny could be crowned with an Oscar nomination later this month, but the man whose story is told in it has never seen the film. Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, remains behind bars under a lengthy sentence after daring to criticize President Vladimir…

CNN unveiled its slate of series and films planned for 2023, as the original projects unit prepares to scale back and take production in house. The lineup of original series includes Giuliani: What Happened to America’s Mayor?, debuting on Jan. 8, as well as United States of Scandal with Jake Tapper…

Navalny has been marketed as an international thriller focusing on the conspiracy to assassinate Russian peace activist Alexei Navalny, but director Daniel Roher says that it was just as important to show him as a human being as it was an icon.  At Deadline's Contenders Documentary awards-season…

It's been a headline-making weekend at the Kelly-Giffords household in Tucson, Arizona. The couple celebrated the news Friday that Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly had been re-elected to his first full term representing Arizona, winning a tight contest with Republican Blake Masters. That bulletin was…

EXCLUSIVE: CNN will be ringing in the new year with a film on a music superstar. CNN Films' award-winning documentary Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over, directed by Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner, will premiere on CNN at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sunday, January 1, broadcast with limited commercial interruption. Warwick got her…

CNN Films and HBO Max have commissioned a new documentary about Little Richard, from Emmy-winning director Lisa Cortés (All In: The Fight for Democracy) of Cortés Filmworks. The film, Little Richard: I Am Everything (w/t), will take a deep dive into the life and career of the iconic musician, who did what he felt, and…